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Home Front: Politix
Dems Abandon Lieberman, Back Lamont
2006-08-10
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Top Democrats on Capitol Hill abandoned Sen. Joe Lieberman one by one Wednesday and threw their support to Ned Lamont, the anti-war challenger who defeated him in the primary. Top Senate Democrats, including John Kerry and Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, Harry Reid of Nevada, Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey and Chuck Schumer of New York, said they supported Lamont as the duly elected choice of Connecticut's Democratic voters.

Reid and Schumer - the party's Senate leader, and the head of the Democratic Senate campaign committee - said: ``The perception was that (Lieberman) was too close to George Bush and this was, in many respects, a referendum on the president more than anything else. The results bode well for Democratic victories in November and our efforts to take the country in a new direction.''
Because you always look stronger tossing one of your own out of the boat and into the water.
Kennedy called Lamont's victory ``a clarion call for change,'' and a spokeswoman said Kennedy planned to campaign for the nominee.
Oh please, oh please, oh please, oh please ...
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton reiterated her pledge to back the winner of the primary. She stopped short of calling on Lieberman to quit the race but urged the senator to ``search his conscience and decide what is best for Connecticut and for the Democratic Party.''
Think he's done that, Hilde, that's why he's staying in.
Posted by:Steve White

#11  Tom Tancredo is right:

if Muslim terrorists attack the free world, then bomb Mecca.

That's not PC, but that's efficient.
Posted by: leroidavid   2006-08-10 16:33  

#10  Understand, Joe lost my respect when he bent over and grabbed his ankles for Hollyweird during the 2000 campaign.

His ambition had overshadowed his morals.

If he wins and still Caucasus with the donks, he is more f+cked up than I thought.
Posted by: Captain America   2006-08-10 16:30  

#9  If Joe runs and wins as an indpendent there is nothing to stop him from changing back to a Democrat as soon as the election is over.
Posted by: BrerRabbit   2006-08-10 16:25  

#8  Bingo:I personally would like to see more independents in Congress.

I'd like to see an unfettered Tom Tancredo.

Ned Lamont, great-nephew of Corliss Lamont, WASP plutocrat fund-raiser for Stalin. Lamont's main political asset is that he is a walking, breathing argument in favor of a massive inheritance tax. His plan for fighting the terrorists is to enact a single-payer government health plan and universal pre-K education programs. His goal is to unite the "cut" and "run" wings of his party into one glorious coalition.

Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, black anti-semites bussed into Conn. to finalize the deal.
Posted by: SamAdamsky   2006-08-10 13:37  

#7  Lamont probably got all the votes that he is going to get in the Nov. election. There are a lot more votes out there than Lamont's showing. If Lieberman runs as an independent and wins, then that is another nail in the dem's coffin and a warning to republicans to get off their fat asses and lead this country. I personally would like to see more independents in Congress. Both parties have sold their souls out a long time ago.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2006-08-10 12:29  

#6  The trunk has a gambling problem. He's history. The GOP $ will go to Joe.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-08-10 10:56  

#5  Political reality here. If Joe runs, Lamont can't win. Lamont will get anti-war vote. Lamont and Joe will split leftist vote. Joe will get most of that. I think the republican has a chance.
Does anyone have a clue about the republican in this race ? I don't even know his name.
Any right wingers in Conn ?
Posted by: wxjames   2006-08-10 10:49  

#4  What if -

Joe runs and wins.

The party split for control of the Senate is one seat short of majority.

Will Joe remember the Ides of March?
Posted by: Tholunter Ulonter6878   2006-08-10 09:53  

#3  If Joe wanted to do what is best for the Democrat party, hew would pull out and make them face what they have done. As it is they get to have their fun protest without any consequences.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-08-10 07:25  

#2  Toward a Judenfrei Democratic Party.
Posted by: Mike   2006-08-10 06:38  

#1  Damn, I'm getting slow. It just occured to me that I worked with Ned on some campus technolgies projects in the early 1990s. Our company did the general contracting and Ned's company provided the cable television programming. (That tidbit plus four bucks will get you a latte at Starbucks.)
Posted by: GK   2006-08-10 01:12  

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